But will the below method allow me to grab all the gentoo stuff off the 'net during the brief window of opportunity of having a T1 d/l pipe, thus allowing me to "install" off the local drive at my leisure when I lose the T1?
I need to d/l *everything* while I have the chance. Yuri On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:10, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:02, you wrote: > > Where should I start in this endeavour? > > D/L the appropriate CD1 from here:- > > ftp://203.96.92.95/gentoo/releases/x86/1.4/livecd > > Cut the .iso image to a CD. > ( Yes you do need to do this step. It makes it so much easier. On pain of > death, real uber-gurus could probably start off from Tom's Root and Boot, > but I'd have to start by booting a CD. :-) > > Boot it. > Mount the CD on /mnt/cdrom > Follow the instructions, the command to use is:- > links file:///mnt/cdrom/install.html > > There are a few issues with the X-11 server to be sorted out, but it's not > difficult.
